ee ee a ee ee ee eee: thy _ Senteg ‘tion, Using Coca-Cola bottles as weapons against steel-helmeted Police, Japanese workers smashed their way into the Tokyo headquarters of General Ridgway and stormed the Emperor’s balace in May Day demonstrations against American domina- In other cities more than 400 meetings were held. Stalin cheered by millions marching — in Moscow parade By RALPH PARKER A million people marched in dense ranks through the Red cheering Premier Stalin on the most colorful and animated 4y Day that Moscow has ever known. Stalin, who stood among other members of the Soviet Govern- Ment, returned their greetings, as parents lifted children on their Square Shoulders to see him, It was impossible not to be Moved by the greetings conveyed the foreign delegations who Were massed on the tribunes just ®yond the Lenin ‘Mausoleum, They bore so much hopes, so Much yearning, so much respect for the workers of other lands, represented here today by China’s erated peasants, engineers from |. ie People’s Democracies, fur- femen from the Ruhr, students aun Japan, and leaders of demo- raving movements from Australia, 7 tm America and West Europe— S Well as the British. Beyond the Square, on the. .{nks of the river, crowds con- VERean “ged in a seething mass. it Was obvious that the people 8 Nea this a demonstration of ti Solidarity of working people °Ughout the world. eo Over a mile from the cen- of the city the streets pre- such & spectacle only seen on ait holidays: people, often con- if a of family groups, walking © middle of the road. Only mij Occasionally was a car per . to pass, the Dominating everything were Words “Peace will triumph a a aagks which in one way or “ing ler, people went on repeat- to each other long after oy th tion rmal May Day demonstra- Lele Was over and the day’s bration had reached a bril- . MOSCOW (OE {CEE Ralf million people salute president in East Berlin parade BERLIN Hundreds of West German police, with truncheons and high-pressure hoses, launched themselves against 10,000 young people during the May Day demonstrations, : Using their truncheons and jets of water which can stun a man, they tried to drive the demonstrators out of the French Zone, where they were forming up, and back into the Eastern Sector. In East Berlin at least a million people ‘paraded 36- abreast and saluted President Wilhelm Pieck. At a demonstration in West Berlin, anti-Soviet speeches were made by Lord Mayor Reu- ter and by Henry Rutz, repre- senting the American Federa- tion of Labor. 3 Rutz told the crowd that more Americans will visit Ber- , lin this year than last. Ut TE TT bd liant climax in a firework dis- play that threw a mantle of glittering light over the happy Japanese demonstrate against U.S. army of occupation; 300,000 answer unions’ call Over 300,000 workers and students demonstrating here on that America was holding Japan ‘ : Breaking through barriers of steel-helmeted police, the Tokyo headquarters of General Ridgway and stormed They tossed two American sail- ors and five Japanese police into the palace moat. In Tokyo’s Meiji Park. where Norman Thomas, American “So- cialist” leader, was scheduled to make a U.S. State Department line speech, demonstrators over- ran the gathering, abruptly end- ing the meeting. g Foreigners watching the Im- perial Plaza scene from behind police barricades were bombarded with Coca-Cola bottles. American soldiers came run- ning hatless and with torn uni- forms from the centre of the palace riot. : Prison cells and hospital wards were crammed after the demon- strations. Police headquarters reported 218 policemen injured, 51 seri- ously. Civilian casualties totalled at least 270, 70 of whom were considered in a’serious condition, and one worker was killed. Police arrested 64 people in Tokyo and more than 200 throughout the country. .Throughout Japan there were demonstrations sponsored by the four-million-strong General Coun- cil of Trade Unions, which issued this declaration: “The Yoshida cabinet has crushed our hopes for national peace by negotiating a one- sided Japanese Peace ‘Treaty -and Japanese-United States Se- curity Pact. Such action will lead the nation to slavery and huniiliation. “Our slogans must be ‘Oppose rearmament’ and ‘True indepen- dence by removing American forces.’ ”’ ‘ ; May Day demonstrators in other centres of Japan held more than 400 meetings. Half a million Workers assembled at the big industrial centre of Osaka, central Japan, Among the demonstrators were members of the Japanese Wound- ed Ex-Servicemen’s Association, many of them with missing limbs. They wore white robes and carried placards saying: ‘“‘Do not bé a soldier—this is what you get.”’ Some Koreans carried placards protesting .against the United States’ use of germ warfare in Korea. x All demonstrators carried pla- cards or pamphlets declaring: “Get the foreign troops out of Japan.’’ And another dominant: theme was: ‘“‘We don’t want war.” |. Hundreds were injured in fights, in which police used tear- gas and baton-charged the milling crowds. ~ Police drove demonstrators away from the front of General Ridgway’s headquarters in the Dai Ichi Insurance buildings, which face the Imperial Palace across the green-swarded plaza, and fired over their heads, ‘The demonstrators set up their own first aid posts from big trucks they drove through the police cordon into the Imperial Plaza. Injured demonstrators lined up and had their wounds bandaged. Thousands of students and workers snaked past Tokyo radio building, singing the International and chanting: ‘Go home, Ameri- cans, go home.” ; They broke the windows of. General Ridgway’s Public Infor- mation Office. city. TOKYO May Day approved a declaration in national slavery and humiliation.” the demonstrators stoned and smashed the Emperor’s palace, May Day parade in Peking shows advance made by People’s China ‘More than half a million people demonstrated in impressive May PEKING Peking’s most Day parade since the city’s liberation. ‘Better dressed, better fed than ever before, the industrial workers announced the doubling and trebling of their output targets. They carried models of their factories or machines and _ por- traits of the working-class leaders of the world. ; *Behind them came a _breath- taking ‘massed display of red silk National, Party and Youth League banners. These were fol- lowed by 20,000 children carry- ing books and flowers. Thousands of athletes from all parts of the country, Yangko drum dancers, workers’ bands and groups of dancers’ from Korea and the national minori- ties of China followed. The head of the British work- ers delegation-here, Frank Hay- ward, of South Wales, said: “The war maniacs may well tremble at the strength of pur- pose and achievement shown here. Any aggressor must be mad if he thinks he can destroy this happiness.” The people of Peking have much to celebrate, Living standards have gone up between 20 and 30 percent since last May Day. The Chinese people have just successfully completed their re- markable campaign for rooting out the last vestiges of corruption. waste and bureaucracy. Now they are vigorously preparing a large- scale industrialization, Bulgaria celebrates with tulips, roses Bathed in spring sunlight, with all the lilacs in blossom and tulips and roses in abundance, Bugaria’s capital celebrated May Day more joyously and confidently than ever before. All Sofia turned out in holiday clothes, with flags and joined the immense May Day procession. Factory and office workers, housewives and schoo] children, peasants from the outlying vil- lages, students and cultural work- ers all marched together. The main slogans were for peace and the building of social- ism. In the procession was a massed choir of 3,400 singers ofall ages who strode by singing the Inter- national, : Headed by their own youthful trumpeters, qa large company of Pioneer children released hun- dreds of doves and colored bal- loons. They. presented armfuls of tu- lips and lilac blossoms to the gov- ernment leaders gathered in front SOFIA and flowers, of the mausoleum of George Dimi- trov. Five columns deep, the proces- sion flooded by for four hours. The enthusiastic cheering and the slogans left no doubt that Bulgaria’s Five-Year Plan will be completed in four years—by De- cember this year. Everybody knows that by next ‘May Day the first Bulgarian steel will be coming from the Lenin Metallurgical Plant now going up near the mining town of Dimi- trovo. 3 There were many slogans against American germ warfare in Korea. One group carried ‘model insects and flies—‘“‘Tru- man’s last recruits.” i ‘Long live peace’ ery of Prague paraders By PAT DOOLEY PRAGUE Crying “Long live peace,” over 500,000 men, women and chil- dren marched 50 abreast for four and a half hours through Prague celebrating May Day. . Saluting the marchers was Premier Antonin Zapotocky, members of the government and the ambassad6rs from friendly éountries. President Gottwald was not present, but the day before May Day he attended the distribution of decorations in Prague’s Castle to over 100 of the best workers in industry. science and art. Hundreds of posters and tab+ leaux were used to denounce germ warfare in Korea and China. Thousands of colorfully dressed children carried flowers which they lifted in greetings before the government stand. American ‘“culture” was satir- ized in a series of witty tableaux, Ending the enormous proces- sion were the university students declaring on their banners that they were creating a new world. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 9, 1952 — PAGE 3